Creating a bootable image

[Goggeli]

Hello!

I am sick and tired of installing all my applications like compiz, avant, VLC and so on after I do my fresh installs. It made me wonder, is it possible to create a image of my fresh system with all my apps installed, and boot and install from that? It would be to huge help!

Thanks all!

[Lars Noodén]

There are a lot of ways to get a similar effect. I'm sure to have left some out.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=688872

http://www.howtoforge.com/installing_puppet_on_ubuntu

http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/linux.html

You can also make a list of the package names (as shown in apt or dpkg) and keep that in a file, one per line. Then when you do a new installation, you can run apt and use the list for input. You can keep a copy on your web site and get it with wget during the CD installation or a usb stick. For example, two packages only:



tidy
curl


If I put that list of two packages in /home/goggeli/packages.txt then this will install them:


sudo apt-get install `cat /home/goggeli/packages.txt`

[fishyf]

From a terminal run the following command:

dpkg --get-selections > apps.txt


This will store a list of every application that is currently installed to a file called apps.txt. If you are wanting to re-install your OS, then save this file to a USB stick.

Once you are ready to install all your applications again:

dpkg --set-selections < apps.txt
dselect update
apt-get dselect-upgrade show

Now after a lot of downloading and installing, you will once have all of your applications installed again. It may be an idea before you re-install your OS to back up the /etc/apt/sources.list file, so that you are able to download the applications that you may have got else where.

[Goggeli]

Thanks you all have been to great help! I fund what I needed at this one (http://http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=688872)

Marking tread as solved:D